Dr. Vlada Stamenkovic serves as the Senior Director of Space Resources at Blue Origin where he focuses on enabling a sustainable future for humans in space and on Earth. Prior to this role, he was a Research Scientist at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. His academic background includes positions as a Research Staff Scientist at Caltech and as a Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Stamenkovic earned a PhD in Planetary Sciences from the University of Münster.